How L.O.E. Can You Go?

Last night Lara Yaz, Ed Murray, and Tim Warner produced a show at the Improv called Lack O' Ettiquite. It was good and I had a lot of fun. There were a bunch of people I hadn't seen in awhile and that alone was awesome, but the real treat was watching everyone perform that I knew and the one guy I didn't. They all just looked so good up there. Now I didn't see everyone's set regrettably, because I had to do some sets next door for The World, but what I saw was really good.

Josh Spear hosted the show and did a great job. He was a great anchor for the show. Everything blended together so nicely and there's something I really like about how Josh sits on the stool and no one else does. It's very comfortable.

I helped make the line-up and one criteria I was made aware of was that Ed Murray wanted to go up first. And he did. Ed looked fucking fantastic. Swinging new bits in with old ones, it was great. He closed on a bit that I haven't seen him do in a long while either and that was cool to watch.

Lara Yaz was the next comic I saw and she did really great. She opened with her Alcoholic material, which is all very well written. Again it was one of the most fun sets I saw of the night. She stuck to her set a lot and got a great reaction for it.

The one guy on the show I didn't know was Dan Curray and he rocked. Very jokey, very non-traditional, and very funny.

Tim Warner followed Dan and did what he does best: owns the stage. Whenever Tim is on stage you fucking know it. He doesn't really have to say anything, but it all still seems apart of the act. Most times it is. Some great jokes in there. What was cool was that the the really jokey stuff for Tim that usually kills got decent responses and the longer stuff that often will go unnoticed by a crowd went over huge. Everything in the GNR bit was great.

After Tim was Tom McCaffrey who destroyed the room. His premises were getting laughs. Then his punchlines. His tags. And his toppers. They all just rocked. He told maybe ten jokes in a twelve minute set, because people were dying.

Pat Dixon closed out the show and probably did a solid twenty or twenty-five minutes. Pat's sets flow so beautifully well. It's such a great thing to watch. It doesn't feel like he's telling jokes. It feels like he's just getting shit off of his chest. He closed on one of my favorite bits: the blow up doll. "Fuck you, air whore, I gave you life!"

It was a fantastic show, guys. Good job.